Perriello Aims to Rebuild Environmental-Labor Coalition in Southwest Virginia

By: Mike Elk June 15, 2017

Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk had a profile of Tom Perriello’s effort to rebuild an environmental-labor coalition in Southwest Virginia.

The piece examines how Perriello’s campaign against the pipeline and fossil fuels has lead him to leading there by a nearly 3 to 1.

“We have supported the pipeline from the beginning and that hasn’t changed,” says Jeff Rowe, president of the 10,000 member-strong Virginia Association of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. “That being said, this election is about a lot more than pipeline.”

The IBEW said that they decided to endorse Perriello after he became the only candidate in the race to call for free two-year community college and repealing the state’s “right-to-work” law.”

Go to The Guardian and check out the whole piece:

 

About the Author

Mike Elk
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter and alumni of the Guardian. A native of Pittsburgh, Elk grew up in a UE union family. Elk was the only American reporter in the room with Lula on the morning of the election & traveled with him to the Oval Office. Credited by the Washington Post for being the first reporter to track the strike wave systematically, Elk started Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing in 2015. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and attended journalism school at PUC-Rio de Janeiro. He speaks both Portuguese and Pittsburgh fluently. His email is [email protected]

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